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JAMMU (JAMMU & KASHMIR) INDIA
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2001
 

Pentagon adds leaflets to bombing
Strongest daylight attacks on Kabul
*Powell names special Afghan envoy amid post-Taliban planning

KABUL, Oct 15: In the biggest daylight raids so far, US jets pounded targets around Kabul today and attacked military headquarters and a suspected terrorist training camp near the eastern city of Jalalabad..............more


Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gestures with newly-appointed Union Ministers George Fernandes, center, and Harian Pathak after the oath taking ceremony at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on Monday. (AP/Ajit Kumar)
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee gestures with newly-appointed Union Ministers George Fernandes, center, and Harian Pathak after the oath taking ceremony at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi on Monday. (AP/Ajit Kumar)

PM rejects opposition demand on Fernandes’ re-induction

NEW DELHI, Oct 15: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today rejected opposition demand against reinduction of George Fernandes into the Cabinet and as Defence Minister asserting that there was no case against him in the Tehelka expose...........more

Bunkers smashed, casualties feared
Pak creates war like situation on border

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 15: A war like situation prevailed in Pallanwalla, Nowshera and Mendhar sectors this evening with Pakistan army simultaneously resorting to mortar shelling and firing with heavy weapons sending people in forward areas under cover. As Indian side fired back, over 14 Pakistani bunkers were smashed and several enemy soldiers perished but exact number of casualties couldn’t be ascertained......more

Civilian killed, another injured in Kanachak
4 blasts blow up transformer, poles

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 15: Four powerful explosions blasted an electric transformer and two poles at village Rakh Kharoon in Kanachak area of Akhnoor tehsil this morning disrupting electricity supply in the village. In Garkhal village of Kanachak, a youth was killed and another seriously injured in Pakistan firing, leading to public protests and a fresh threat of migration...........more

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Romeo Force kills two terrorists
SDPO Mendhar injured, house damaged in fidayeen attack

Excelsior Correspondent

RAJOURI. Oct 15: Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Mendhar Dalip Kumar was injured when his official residence and Mendhar police station came under heavy firing and rocket attacks by the terrorists in Mendhar town late last night. Two suspected fidayeen were injured in retaliation by police but they managed to escape..............more

Anti-America, pro-Taliban shutdown in Valley
SOG driver, 3 militants, 5 civilians killed

Excelsior Special Correspondent

SRINAGAR, Oct 15: Even as Kashmir valley today observed yet another anti-America and pro-Taliban shutdown without any group’s call, security forces eliminated at least three militants in two different operations. Militants gunned down a driver of the counter-insurgent Operations Group (SOG) and five civilians died in other incidents of violence...............more

JK Govt takes Centre by surprise
Why Delhi hesitates from banning outfits?

From B L Kak

NEW DELHI, Oct 15: The Government of India appears to be in a fix, unable to take a quick decision on the argument advanced by the Jammu and Kashmir Government vis-ŕ-vis the demand for a ban on certain militant outfits........more

Military action in J&K inevitable: George

NEW DELHI, Oct 15: Asserting that the present action in Afghanistan has "exposed" the nexus between Pakistan, Taliban and Osama bin Laden to promote terrorism, Defence Minister George Fernandes tonight said a step up in military operations against militants backed by them in Jammu and Kashmir is "inevitable"..............more

Al Qaeda’s remarks a challenge: PM

NEW DELHI, Oct 15: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today termed as a "serious challenge" Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda terrorist network dragging Kashmir into its current conflict with the US and said India has to fight the threat together..........more

US threatening world peace: Iran

TEHRAN, Oct 15: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today condemned the "bellicose nature" of the United States, accusing Washington of "thrreatening world peace by dragging the planet into a global war"...........moreMissing
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3 Kashmiri ultras, two cops killed.....

Bush asks India, Pak to ‘stand down’.....

Rockets seized in Banihal......

Child killed, 21 injured in train derailment.....



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